Lady Blade - Chapter one
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Francesca DiCeasre is the daughter of Italy's most illustrious fencing maestro. So why is she so worried on the way to her father's duel. He's the best, he can't lose. Can he?
This is the first chapter of Lady Blade which was a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest and a finalist in the San Francisco Writer's Conference Contest.
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